This guy is a poster boy for hypocrisy. First it was he's against earmarks while backdooring them onto bills that he votes against. Then it was he's in favor of term limits while he was re-elected to Congress multiple times. Now the hypocrite who decries Social Security as a handout admits that he accepts Social Security. Thank God he was battered to death in the primaries. http://articles.latimes.com/2012/ju...nt-acknowledges-he-receives-benefits-20120620
Nothing wrong with that. The money would be spent on something stupid and wasteful anyway, so why not send it back to the taxpayers of his district, since it's their money to begin with? Not hypocrisy unless he votes against term limits. As long as term limits don't exist, there's nothing wrong with continuing to represent the people of his district, especially since they clearly want him. *shrug* A lot of people who condemn social welfare will accept it at least once in their lives. Besides, SS is really his money anyway, since he was forced to pay into it since it was created.
Ron Paul did not enroll in the much more lucrative House pension program, saying it would be "hypocritical and immoral" to accept a benefit unavailable to the taxpayers who fund it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There was minor shock in the office when Paul informed the staff they would no longer participate in the federal Medicaid or Medicare programs. "People will pay as they can," scrub nurse Donna White, who later married her boss's youngest brother, recalls the doctor saying. "And if they can't, that's fine." One family, she says, paid him in fresh-caught shrimp. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .....he was elected president of the student council at Dormont and won the school's service award three years running. But he really excelled at track. His junior year, Paul placed first in the state in the 220-yard dash, second in the 440 and third in the 100. Pennsylvania State University offered him a full athletic scholarship. When he tore the cartilage in his right knee playing touch football that summer, Penn State was still willing to take a chance on him. But Paul decided he couldn't accept in good conscience. "I was not confident I could meet the standards of honoring that scholarship," he says. Instead, he chose Gettysburg College, a small Lutheran school near the famous battlefield. Paul paid his own way, using money earned from his job running the local student coffee shop, The Bullet Hole, and washing dishes at the Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity house. In his senior year, he married Carolyn Wells, who had first noticed him when a friend pointed out the lanky upperclassman running around the track at Dormont. Paul went on to attend Duke University School of Medicine in Durham, N.C. During his second year of residency in Detroit, Paul got a letter from the Selective Service. He could be drafted into the Army as a "buck private," or join as a physician and receive an officer's commission. "I volunteered immediately," he says, chuckling. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Ron Paul has said he would reduce his own presidential salary from $400,000 to $39,336 the median salary of an American worker. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/10/ron-paul-proposes-interes_n_1140723.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ WOW......such a money-grubbing hypocrite!!! The nerve of him accepting SS money that he paid in. Thanks, Jason, for exposing this fraud.
And that doesn't even begin to cover his "Good Samaritan" policy with his medical practice. Nice work, Woogs.
